Pour yourself a stiff one, empty glass, pour another…
Two days ago, we pondered, briefly, the great Portuguese Colonial War that had munitions flying all over both coasts of Africa, as well as rapping on the windshields of Indians on the island of Goa.
In today’s let’s-discover-Portugal lesson, we talk slavery.
Oh must we? Yes, it’s fascinating.
From the Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula in the eighth-century and the subsequent enslaving of European Christians to the Great Switcharoo four hundred years later and all the way up to the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought five million Africans to Brazil, Portugal filled its bosom with human cargo.
But so many friendly smiles!
Today, we’ll drink our whisky, place our bets and enjoy modern, free, liberated Portugal and the buzzing of round four of the Rip Curl Pro.
Watch here, and smile your friendly smiles and banter below.
Men’s Round 4 Matchups:
HEAT 1: Jordy Smith (ZAF) vs. Griffin Colapinto (USA)
HEAT 2: Kolohe Andino (USA) vs. Michael Rodrigues (BRA)
HEAT 3: Filipe Toledo (BRA) vs. Wade Carmichael (AUS)
HEAT 4: Kanoa Igarashi (JPN) vs. Kelly Slater (USA)
HEAT 5: Gabriel Medina (BRA) vs. Caio Ibelli (BRA)
HEAT 6: Peterson Crisanto (BRA) vs. Jesse Mendes (BRA)
HEAT 7: Italo Ferreira (BRA) vs. Conner Coffin (USA)
HEAT 8: Jack Freestone (AUS) vs. Soli Bailey (AUS)
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you have problems you need help with, i dont even think about you until i see another message. 50 messages ago you said you were over it. let it go and try and figure out what is really bothering you. i am just letters on a screen.
i am sorry that I suggested you play video games with that guy.
i hope you can rest now,
ive never even seen meth. but you keep bringing it up and your behavior over the last few days is classic meth talk. I hope you find help. i wish you the best and if anyone here knows you in real life than I hope that they see this and reach out to you.
metta
The only problem , is that like sailing , the winner of the world title may end up not being decided by surfing judges but by judges and legal teams in the courts ?
“It’s honestly very boring and a huge waste of time engaging with you so go ahead and get your last word in, I won’t be responding to you anymore.”
I’m offering $1.20 on Ck T and $3 on ScottSanDiego if anyone’s interested
let it drop. he is obsessive and it will only distract from anything meaningful at BG
the keyboard warrior thing is absurd
oh, the Jesus thing really got to you.
Sorry that your god is a fairy tale, there is nothing i can do about that
Brincadeira parceiro, na boa
Porra que susto hahaha
Tranquilo irmão vou apagar sem erro!
Mas eu fiquei triate tode ver meio que o linchamento do Caio na postagem da WSL no Instagram…
E justamente do brasileiros porque nego não pára para pensar um pouco…
Cara o Medina forçou demais sem necessidade, mesmo que se argumente da sinalização
A era uma merda, ele sobrava e principalmente, ele é o favorito ao título.
Não foi a primeira vez que o Medina comete um erro destes forçando sem necessidade
Caio ali era franco atirador, e tentando se manter, precisando de resultados, não tinha nada a perder… cara não iria dar de bom garoto ali.
Naquele mar se o Caio vira numa onda merda, a chance do Medina virar em seguida, é o triplo
Ela está sobrando.
E vai ganhar pode apostar,e Pipe
Grande abraço
Sei lá, o Gabs se ferrou. Surfava mil vezes melhor q o Caio e ainda forçou ele nessa palhaçada de priority. Ele joga essa tática todo o tempo, culpa dele que deu mau essa vez.
Os juizes erraram, mas Medina tb.
you were the one wishing I be shot and claiming to be some bad ass that could wipe me of the face of the earth.
that is a death threat.
all i ever did is suggest to someone else that you should play video games together and that was enough to trigger you to that level of violence?
yet, you think i am mentally ill?
Go wash ice playboy
ok, now tuck that tail between your legs and run away.
your keyboard warrior bravado seems to have vanished quickly.
have you lost interest in having someone shoot me?
not if you meet me
Thanks CAIO! – from the US btw
Conspiracy Fact: Kelly lets Kanoa win as payback for being a traitor and switching countries for the olympics.. so Kelly has a shot.
Definitely didn’t deserve to win the heat, but adds spice to the title race!
Interesting too that neither Colapinto, Coffin or Moniz got any further than Kelly, which keeps his Olympic shot still a good chance. Wonder if John John is back in the water yet?
Pretty sure he said he’s back for pipe
Good stuff, end of year will be even more fascinating seeing how it unfolds.
“too bad they didnt” and “I wouldnt care”, are two different things.
make up your mind.
you want someone to kill me?
Good morning, everybody.
Just watched the Medina/Caio interference on replay, and tried getting more info from your comments. Was anything said on the commentary or in subsequent interviews about the priority semaphore not working, or?
Can’t imagine Gabriel making a rookie mistake like that.
Help a brother out!
Nothing reported except for the Caio interview where he said he knew he had priority and couldn’t believe Gabriel was hassling him as he paddled for the same wave.
Yet Gabriel obviously wasn’t over frothing when paddling for that wave, and he pointed at the priority signs afterwards. Very strange.
Gabe pushed too far, unnecessarily…
It’s not the first time that he made that mistake.
He fights for the title, Ibelli to stay in WSL or something like that.
Point.
Shit conditions, a mediocre wave and he made the battle… lost
Ball still rolling.
Let’s move to Pipe and now Fil, if Pipe don’t breaks, had a new chance, Italo too.
Hey Mads, Watch the Heat 6 FULL reply (the one after the Gabby/Ciao heat) and fast forward to Caio’s interview. He said (i recall) that prior to the interference wave, he caught a right and Gabby caught a left. Left went further and the both “raced” to get back outside. Caio said he was given priority. When Gabby was super aggressive on the interference wave, even Caio said he had to double check (you can see him quickly look up to the tower seemingly double checking the indicator). My guess is that Gabby must have thought he had earned priority and did not check the indicator. He is too good at heat strategy to f*ck up any other way. Not that we can see what the tower showed with the indicator, but it was certainly flipped to Caio on the broadcast.
Mads may I suggest you watch the WSL Post Show from yesterday , Kaipo and Strider and to a lesser degree Rosy discussed the two issues quite openly , the Priority Decision and the 3.1 awarded for Caio’s heat winning wave , with good footage of both . In my personal opinion . Medina was out the back first and the 3.1 could easily have been a 2 to a 2.8 in the context of this heat ….. Strider thought there was a good chance that the heat may be re-surfed …..
Yes. And the 3K figure is from a season or two ago, but I don’t think it’s gone up much or at all. The ex-World Champs & possibly ex-pros get more. I know for sure that beach announcers get between $150-200 US per day.
Jackie Boy lookin sharp. Ms B must’ve started wearing moo moos around the house
Well.. Caio now had to face the very brave / patriotic / courageous / fearless / internet mob lynchers, and in his spare time, professional screen pro surfers commentators from social midias from Brazil …
Poor guy…
luckily Caio has you here to clean his balls for him while he basks in his 8.bullshit win